Atiku Criticizes Federal Government's Response to South Africa Xenophobic Tensions
Atiku says Nigeria should have acted faster, citing Ghana’s evacuation of more than 300 citizens and urging travel advisories and diplomatic pressure.
- On Sunday, Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar criticized President Bola Tinubu's administration for a sluggish response to renewed xenophobic violence in South Africa, arguing the belated actions fell short of standards expected of Africa's most populous nation.
- Nigerians in South Africa endure recurring cycles of intimidation, looting, and xenophobic hostility that destroy businesses and endanger lives, while successive Nigerian governments have responded with bureaucratic inertia and delayed action.
- In a statement issued by Senior Special Assistant Phrank Shaibu on Sunday, Atiku noted Ghana approved the immediate evacuation of over 300 citizens, calling it "frankly humiliating" that smaller nations projected stronger leadership than Nigeria.
- Atiku urged the Federal Government to issue robust travel advisories, activate evacuation arrangements, and intensify diplomatic engagement with South African authorities while specifically calling on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to shed its habitual slow-footedness.
- The former vice president argued Nigeria cannot continue to posture as a continental leader while behaving like a reluctant observer, proposing the African Union establish a lasting framework against recurring anti-immigrant violence across the continent.
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned what he described as the Tinubu administration’s characteristically sluggish and underwhelming response to the renewed anti-immigrant tensions in South Africa. In a statement by his spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku said it is both embarrassing and unacceptable that Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and self-acclaimed giant, had to be shamed into action while smaller nations such as Ghana…
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